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Light-mantled albatross nesting
Light-mantled albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) on its nest. Breeding pairs mate for life and both birds incubate a single egg every two years in a cliff top nest. They both help raise the chick and feed it on regurgitated food for about six months until it is ready to leave the nest. Although this is a small albatross, its wingspan of nearly one metre allows it to soar on the winds of the southern oceans to feed on fish and squid. Photographed on Bird Island, South Georgia, southern Atlantic Ocean.
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